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Poster:	The_Emperor_Of_Television	Date:	February 04, 2013 11:45:38pm
Forum:	classic_tv	Subject:	Hopefully incomplete list of 1950s British TV series for which all episodes still exist

Whether they'd be OK to upload, I don't know, copyright laws confuse me. But some of them already have some or all episodes uploaded.

They are sorted by the year they debuted, and also include some mini-series plus some series produced with the intent of export to the US:

**1954**
"Fabian of the Yard"
"War in the Air"

**1955**
"Around the World with Orson Welles"
"Love and Kisses" (not sure about this)
"Orson Welles' Sketch Book"
"Quatermass II"
"St. Ives"
"The Adventures of Robin Hood"
"The Scarlet Pimpernel"
"The Woodentops"

**1956**
"Jane Eyre"
"The Adventures of Sir Lancelot"
"The Adventures of the Big Man"
"The Buccaneers"
"The Count of Monte Cristo"

**1957**
"Five Names for Johnny"
"Motive for Murder"
"O.S.S."
"Sword of Freedom"
"The Gentle Killers"
"The Music Box"
"The New Adventures of Charlie Chan"
"The Silver Sword"
"Together Again"
"Torchy, the Battery Boy"
"White Hunter"

**1958**
"Dial 999"
"Invisible Man: The Original Series"
"Little Women"
"Our Mutual Friend"
"Quatermass and the Pit"
"Sketch Club" (not sure about this)
"The Anne Shelton Show"
"The Larkins"
"William Tell"

**1959**
"Australian Walkabout"
"Bleak House"
"Epilogue to Capricorn"
"Gert and Daisy"
"Glencannon"
"International Detective"
"Interpol Calling"
"Noggin the Nog"
"The Four Just Men"
"The Man Who Finally Died"
"The Third Man"
"The Voodoo Factor"
"Whicker's World"

If there's any mistakes on this list, please let me know.

This post was modified by The_Emperor_Of_Television on 2013-02-05 07:45:38

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Poster:	Quigs	Date:	February 04, 2013 09:42:05pm
Forum:	classic_tv	Subject:	Re: Hopefully incomplete list of 1950s British TV series for which all episodes still exist

Hey Matt, how about The Avengers (1960-61) and Secret Agent(aka Danger man)for 1959?
Quigs

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Poster:	Quigs	Date:	February 04, 2013 09:45:00pm
Forum:	classic_tv	Subject:	Re: Hopefully incomplete list of 1950s British TV series for which all episodes still exist

Sure would like to see Bleak House.
Quigs

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Poster:	The_Emperor_Of_Television	Date:	February 04, 2013 11:55:56pm
Forum:	classic_tv	Subject:	Re: Hopefully incomplete list of 1950s British TV series for which all episodes still exist

"Bleak House" - British TV did a lot of adaptations of famous works like this. Books, plays, stuff like that, but the survival rate is eratic. Additionally, A lot of the one-offs/anthology episodes that exist from that era are also such works.

Personally, I'm particularly interested in seeing the following:
"Fabian of the Yard" (police drama)
"Around the World with Orson Welles"
"Love and Kisses" (sitcom with Arthur Askey)
"Orson Welles' Sketch Book"
"Gert and Daisy" (sitcom)
"Australian Walkabout" (documentary)
"The Voodoo Factor" (children's serial)

I've already seen "The Adventures of Robin Hood", and the 1958-1964 sitcom "The Larkins". If any episodes of the latter is OK to upload, I hope someone uploads it.

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Poster:	Quigs	Date:	February 05, 2013 08:24:25am
Forum:	classic_tv	Subject:	Re: Hopefully incomplete list of 1950s British TV series for which all episodes still exist

I look forward to that day Matt. Thank you for the episodes
of Emergency Ward BTW.
Quigs

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Poster:	The_Emperor_Of_Television	Date:	February 04, 2013 11:34:27pm
Forum:	classic_tv	Subject:	Re: Hopefully incomplete list of 1950s British TV series for which all episodes still exist

Since the list only lists 1950s series, it excludes those two series. Additionally, some of the early episodes of "The Avengers" are missing (these episodes date from 1961, when the format of the series was quite a bit different to the version remembered today, hence those episodes go unmissed).

I do have a 1960s list if anyone wants me to post it.

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Poster:	Quigs	Date:	February 05, 2013 08:21:25am
Forum:	classic_tv	Subject:	Re: Hopefully incomplete list of 1950s British TV series for which all episodes still exist

Please post it. Danger man with Patrick McGoohab started in 1959 in a half hour format.
Quigs

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Poster:	The_Emperor_Of_Television	Date:	February 05, 2013 06:49:27pm
Forum:	classic_tv	Subject:	Re: 1960s UK series

Since you asked...as with the 1950s list, a lot of these are mini-series and a lot are series produced with the intent of being exported to the US. I was told that although the pre-1963 episodes are public domain in the UK, they are still copyrighted in the US (which makes no sense to me).

Note: Some of these series (such as "The Jazz Age") were originally produced on colour video tape, but today only exist as B&W telerecordings. Additionally, during the late-1960s/early-1970s there were a thing called "All-Star Comedy Carnival", which featured sketches spun-off from sitcoms and featuring the cast of those sitcoms. Most of these segments are believed to be lost.

The list excludes 1950s series that also aired in the 1960s (see previous list), and to be on this list, a series must have aired at least 2 episodes in the 1960s (hence, "Up Pompeii" is not on the list...)

**1960**
"An Age of Kings"
"Barnaby Rudge"
"Counter-Attack!"
"Coronation St"
"Danger Man"
"Formula for Danger"
"Four Feather Falls"
"Maigret"
"Mill of Secrets"
"No Man's Island"
"On Trial"
"Pathfinders in Space" (though the preceding series is lost)
"Pathfinders to Mars"
"Paul of Tarsus"
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
"The Cheaters"
"The Seal of Neptune"
"The Strange World of Gurney Slade"
"The Splendid Spur"

**1961**
"Suggestion of Sabotage"
"Journey of a Lifetime"
"Pathfinders to Venus"
"The Mask of the Clown"
"The Treasure Seekers"
"The Secret of the Nubian Tomb"
"The Seven Faces of Jim" (however, the follow-up series are lost)
"Ghost Squad"
"Hancock" (however, the preceding "Hancock's Half Hour" is partially missing)
"Signpost"
"Sir Francis Drake"
"Supercar"
"The Jo Stafford Show"
"The Pursuers"
"The Pingwings"

**1962**
"City Beneath the Sea"
"Fireball XL5"
"Man of the World"
"Oliver Twist"
"Saki"
"Steptoe and Son"
"Strange Concealments"
"The Andromeda Breakthrough"
"The Bacchae"
"The Saint"
"Zero One"

**1963**
"Espionage"
"Hancock"
"Jezebel ex UK"
"Julius Caesar"
"Maupassant"
"Once Aboard the Lugger..."
"Secret Beneath the Sea"
"Sergeant Cork"
"Swallows and Amazons"
"The Desperate People"
"The Human Jungle"
"The Telegoons"
"The Sentimental Agent"
"The Spread of the Eagle"
"The Victorians"
"World in Action"

**1964**
"A Choice of Coward"
"Call the Gun Expert"
"Comedy Workshop: Love and Maud Carver"
"Count of Monte Cristo"
"Danger Man"
"Fire Crackers"
"Gerry Anderson's Stingray"
"Gideon's Way"
"Melissa"
"Paris 1900"
"Second City Reports"
"Silas Marner"
"Six"
"The Great War"
"The Protectors"
"The Villains"
"Victoria Regina"

**1965**
"A Man Called Harry Brent"
"A Poor Gentleman"
"A Slight Case of..."
"Court Martial"
"Front Page Story"
"Knock on Any Door"
"Object Z"
"Pardon the Expression"
"Pogle's Wood"
"Serjeant Musgrave's Dance"
"The Man in Room 17"
"The Power Game"
"The Wars of the Roses"
"The Worker"
"Thunderbirds"

**1966**
"A Game of Murder"
"Bat Out of Hell"
"Camberwick Green"
"Death Is a Good Living"
"Five More"
"George and the Dragon"
"Joe"
"Picture Box"
"Take a Pair of Private Eyes"
"Talking to a Stranger"
"The Baron"
"The Corridor People"
"The Dark Number"
"The Look of the Week"
"The Three Musketeers"
"Thirteen Against Fate"
"Ransom for a Pretty Girl"
"You Can't Win"
"Weavers Green"

**1967**
"City 68'"
"Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet"
"Great Expectations"
"Inheritance"
"Les Misérables"
"Man in a Suitcase"
"Mr. Rose"
"One Pair of Eyes"
"Pride and Prejudice"
"Spindoe"
"Sword of Honour"
"The Big M"
"The Fellows"
"The Flower of Gloster"
"The Forsyte Saga"
"The Further Adventures of the Musketeers"
"The Prisoner"
"This Way for Murder"
"Trumpton"
"Vanity Fair"
"Wuthering Heights"

**1968**
"Cold Comfort Farm"
"Father Dear Father"
"Gazette"
"Goodbye Again"
"How We Used to Live"
"Its Vikki Carr"
"Joe 90"
"Marty"
"Nearest and Dearest"
"Nicholas Nickleby"
"Pere Goriot"
"Please Sir!"
"Resurrection"
"Rogues' Gallery"
"Strange Report"
"The Caesars"
"The Champions"
"The Company of Five"
"The Devil in the Fog"
"The Flight of the Heron"
"The Gambler"
"The Growing Summer"
"The Herbs"
"The Jazz Age"
"The Portrait of a Lady"
"The Railway Children"
"The Root of All Evil?"
"The Tyrant King"
"The War of Darkie Pilbeam"
"Tom Grattan's War"
"Treasure Island"
"Virgin of the Secret Service"

**1969**
"Big Breadwinner Hog"
"Bird's-Eye View"
"Canterbury Tales"
"Christ Recrucified"
"Chigley"
"Civilisation"
"Cribbins"
"Curry & Chips"
"Department S"
"Doctor in the House"
"Dombey and Son"
"The First Churchills"
"Fraud Squad"
"Galton and Simpson Comedy"
"Hadleigh"
"Hark at Barker"
"Mary Mungo & Midge"
"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"Mr. Digby Darling"
"Music Hall"
"On the Buses"
"Parkin's Patch"
"Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)"
"Softly Softly: Task Force"
"Special Branch"
"The Best Things in Life"
"The Clangers"
"The Contenders"
"The Dustbinmen"
"The Flaxton Boys"
"The Gold Robbers"
"The Inside Man"
"The John Davidson Show"
"The Main Chance"
"The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder"
"The Owl Service"
"The Possessed"
"The Secret Service"
"Two in Clover"
"Whicker in Europe"
"Who-Dun-It"

Of these series I've seen "Steptoe and Son" (I like it, but it can be irritating), "Pardon the Expression" (good sitcom, very likeable characters), "The Clangers" (good children's series), "Camberwick Green" (very charming children's series), "Mary, Mungo and Midge" (wonderfully dated kids show), "Father, Dear Father" (good sitcom), "Curry & Chips" (interestingly dated sitcom with lots of racial references...will offend many). I'll be watching "The Strange World of Gurney Slade" and "Two in Clover" within the next few weeks. I've also heard 1962's "Two of a Kind" (which I've seen) is complete in the archives.